NZ cabinet minister champions digital ID in government transformation at data summit

Judith Collins, the minister for digitizing government, emphasized the transformative potential of digital identity and innovation in government services in her speech at the sixth annual New Zealand Government Data Summit this week.

Her speech follows the recent announcement from the New Zealand Transit Agency (NZTA) on the launch of a trial phase app that will host New Zealand’s mobile driver’s licenses. Collins pitched the app as a unified platform for drivers to access government services. In her speech, …

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